Christine Blank, a veteran freelance writer and editor, covers all aspects of the seafood industry, from fishing to processing to selling and serving the final product. When she is not writing for SeafoodSource, Christine gets to taste scrumptious seafood dishes at U.S. restaurants for her food and travel blog, Flavorful Excursions (www.flavorfulexcursions.net). Christine loves to eat seafood of any kind, but lobster, crab and crawfish are among her favorites. In addition to SeafoodSource.com and SeaFood Business, Christine’s articles have been published in hundreds of leading magazines and newspapers, such as The New York Times, USA Today and Associated Press.
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The National Fisheries Institute (NFI) and other organizations are concerned about new front-of-package (FOP) nutrition labels the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is proposing for most packaged U.S. food products.
The FDA said the new nutrition labels would give consumers “readily visible information about a food’s saturated fat, sodium, and added sugars content – three nutrients directly linked with chronic diseases
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Global foodservice distributor Sysco is calling on the International Brotherhood of Teamsters (IBT) to stop threatening strikes at its companies in multiple U.S. states, as the Teamsters Local 988 union in Houston, Texas, U.S.A., said it is “preparing to strike for a fair contract after the company abandoned negotiations.”
The potential strikes could impact deliveries of seafood and other products to hundreds of restaurants
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A U.S. federal appeals court has ruled that Kanaway Seafoods, doing business as Alaska General Seafoods (AGS), does not have to pay overtime to employees who were under lockdown during the Covid-19 pandemic.
In the ruling filed 10 January in the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco, California, U.S.A., the court said that the district court that ruled on this case first was correct in stating that Anchorage, Alaska, U.S.A.-based
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U.S. retail seafood sales didn't experience the bump in December 2024 that they typically expect for an end-of-year holiday season, according to new data.
Total fresh seafood sales dropped 5.4 percent by value in December 2024 compared to December 2023, dipping to USD 738 million (EUR 722 million), while Sales by volume dropped 8.2 percent, according to Circana data provided by 210 Analytics in Lakeland, Florida, U.S.A.
The drop, according
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Americans’ continually increasing demand for healthy, on-the-go snacks is driving up sales of seafood packets and kits, Chicken of the Sea Director of Marketing Griffin Raasch told SeafoodSource.
As a result, the El Segundo, California, U.S.A.-based seafood supplier, owned by global food conglomerate Thai Union Group, has rolled out new flavors of pouches and kits to start the new year.
Seafood packet and value-added/kit unit sales
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